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Report of the AAMC Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education

  The Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education has issued its final report for consideration in June by the AAMC Executive Council. The task force included institutional leaders; faculty; residents; students from the AAMC governance; CEOs from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries; ethicists; and public representatives. It was funded by the [...]

Distance Education: The Benefits of Spinal Manipulation

  Here is an online course developed by Dr. Kim Ross of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC). The course description:
This presentation looks at clinical trials of spinal manipulation to discrepancies in the literature, and mechanisms by which manipulation produces its clinical effect. What you will find is that some of the mechanistic assumptions of [...]

Lonely Little Lamp

Rejection. Rain and wind. Sad music. The fleeting caress of the replacement. The dying light and the garbage strewn street.  And then, the accusation …

Responsible Conduct of Research: online courses

  
This series of free online courses from Columbia University promote RCR education as a central responsibility for any institution involved in research. There are six courses:
COURSE 1: Conflicts of Interest   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 2: Mentoring    [Foundation Text]
COURSE 3: Responsible Authorship and Peer Review  [Foundation Text]
COURSE 4: Research Misconduct   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 5: Collaborative Science   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 6: [...]

ROAR & DOAR: Registry / Directory of Open Access Respositories

  I started to look for open access repositories and was getting absolutely overwhelmed until I discovered ROAR and DOAR.
See also eScholarship Respository (California Digital Library)
Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is [...]

eScholarship Respository (California Digital Library)

   Here is an Open Access resource I just discovered, from the California Digital Library (CDL).
The repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library, and is an open-access publishing platform that offers UC [Universiy of California] departments, centers, and research units direct control over the creation and dissemination of the [...]

Chiropractic Treatment Tables

  This article [available free online] was just published in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine:
Evans MW, Campbell A, Husbands C, Breshears J, Ndetan H, Rupert R. Cloth-covered chiropractic treatment tables as a source of allergens and pathogenic microbes. J Chiropr Med 2008; 7(1): 34-38.
Objective: Vinyl chiropractic tables have been found to [...]

IN-CAM Outcomes Database

  Here is a terrific new resource from IN-CAM, the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, an interdisciplinary, collaborative research network, created to foster excellence in CAM research in Canada.
The goal of this database is to include practical and accessible information on outcome measures within a framework of domains that are important to CAM [...]

Holidaying Penguins (the BBC, April 1, 2008)